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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Are you genuinely incapable of distinguishing between a religious text and prurient material?
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Yes. I genuinely am. I can tell what books other people think are "holy books;" people are often quite vocal about it. What I can't tell is what makes those books actually holy. |
Prurient material is written to get the reader(s) sexually aroused. The Old Testament, to put it mildly, was not.
Even if we leave aside all value judgments, it's screamingly obvious that citing the Old Testament as an example of societal tolerance for incest erotica is patently absurd.
And let's face it, no standard can be written in such a way as to preemptively determine what, exactly, will get booted by a retailer at any time. One person's nuance is another person's vagueness, and this is a structural issue that no amount of specificity could fully fix.